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<P><B><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=+3>Introduction</FONT></FONT></B>
<P><SPAN lang="EN-GB"><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">DummyAgent is a simple
yet very useful tool for inspecting message exchanges among JADE agents.</FONT>
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<P><B><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=+3>Starting the Dummy Agent</FONT></FONT></B>
<P><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=+0>An Dummy Agent is&nbsp; is a JADE agent
itself and, therefore, must be launched within a JADE container.</FONT></FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=+0>There are two ways to launch it:</FONT></FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=+0>from the Tools menubar of the JADE GUI</FONT></FONT></LI>

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<FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=+0>with the following command:<B> java jade.Boot
da:jade.tools.DummyAgent.DummyAgent</B></FONT></FONT></LI>
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<FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica">The agent allows to send ACL messages to agents,
receive and inspect messages from agents, read and save messages from/to
file.</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=-1><A HREF="http://jade.cselt.it/">JADE</A>
is a trademark of
<A HREF="http://www.cselt.it">CSELT</A>. <A HREF="http://jade.cselt.it/">JADE</A>
has been developed jointly by <A HREF="http://www.cselt.it">CSELT</A> and
the <A HREF="http://www.ce.unipr.it">Computer Engineering Group</A> of
the <A HREF="http://www.unipr.it">University of Parma</A></FONT></FONT></CENTER>

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